feat(dashboard): take a device off the network from the browser - #626
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The wire has been complete for three slices and nobody could use it. This is the control (#607): a toolbar button that puts an Android emulator into airplane mode and takes it back out, gated on the agent announcing `network-control`, so iOS picks it up in the last slice with no change here. **Four positions, not two.** `waiting`, `unknown`, `online`, `offline`. A device whose report has not arrived and one whose state could not be read are different answers, and both differ from being on the network — spelling either as a boolean is what the agent did on the other side of this wire, where a `lastNetworkOffline` of `false` reported "online" for a device it had never observed. The deadline separating `waiting` from `unknown` is derived from the relay's coalescing window plus an adb round trip, not picked. **Neither unreadable position is disabled**, which is where this parts company with #447. That rule — absent rather than disabled, because a disabled control owes a reason and a tooltip never opens on touch — is right for a gate known before the control renders and fixed for the session. This one arrives after and can change while the control is on screen; hiding it then is a trap, because the click is the only thing that produces a fresh `network:state`. **Nothing renders optimistically.** The toggle moves on a `network:state` and at no other time — not on the click, and not on a `network:error`, which says the request never reached a device and so says nothing about where that device is. That error is toasted rather than swallowed: it is the only thing distinguishing a refused click from a dead button, and sonner renders with `role="alert"`. The `reason` on an unreadable state is deliberately not read. Every read failure arrives as `unsupported-device` today (#618), so branching on it would tell a tester "this device will never do it" about one that is rebooting. Three things came out of the tests and the a11y gate, none of them the feature: - The hook treated "not an error" as a state instead of branching on `network:state`, which `inboundDisposition` refused to accept as handling — and it was right, since a third `network:*` message would have repositioned the control. - `aria-pressed={position === 'offline'}` announced "not offline" for exactly the two positions this design refuses to draw. It is tri-valued now; absent is how the platform spells "no state to report", and the boolean collapse this file warns about had arrived through ARIA instead of through state. - Every icon button in this toolbar had no accessible name. lucide marks an icon with no a11y prop `aria-hidden` — in the version before the recent bump as well as after — and a tooltip's `aria-describedby` attaches only while it is open, so a screen reader read the toolbar as four unlabelled buttons. They have names now, and the software-keyboard toggle carries its state in `aria-pressed` rather than in a `data-` attribute nothing reads.
…at changes Four findings from the a11y gate, two of them contradictions this diff created. **The name and `aria-pressed` were saying the same thing twice.** A toggle can carry its state in a stable name plus `aria-pressed`, or in a name that says the next action — not both. With both, the offline position announced "Take device offline, pressed": the action already done, plus a pressedness that reads as the unavailable one. The name is the action now (`Bring device online` when offline), and `aria-pressed` is gone. That also settles what it should have said in the two positions with no state to report, where `false` would have asserted the device was on the network — the claim this whole design refuses to make from silence, which had arrived through ARIA after being kept out of the state. The record button had the same conflict, introduced in the previous commit when it gained an `aria-pressed` beside a name that already flips. **The tooltip contradicted the button.** It rendered the status sentence for the two unreadable positions, so a voice-control user saw text sharing no words with the accessible name and could not target the control (WCAG 2.5.3); and in the offline position it read "Take device offline" over a device that already was. The action phrase is in the tooltip for every position now, with the status appended rather than substituted. **The status was in a channel nothing announces.** `useNetworkControl` flips `waiting` to `unknown` on a timer, and a description that changes on an element nobody is focused on is announced by no AT — nor is `aria-busy` on a button spoken by NVDA, VoiceOver or JAWS. The span is a `role="status"` live region, and the in-flight state says so in that text rather than only in `aria-busy`. Left out and filed as #624: both the software-keyboard toggle and the record button drop keyboard focus by disabling themselves mid-request. That is a behaviour change to two controls this feature does not otherwise touch, and each needs its own answer to what a second click during the wait should do.
Three more from the a11y gate, and the first is the same defect a third time.
**"Take device offline" asserts the device is currently online.** That is the
claim-from-silence `aria-pressed={false}` was removed for one commit ago — it did
not stop being that claim by moving from the state into the name. The two
unreadable positions are named `Toggle device network` now, with no direction in
it. The pulse and the muted colour say "we do not know" to anyone who can see
them; the name is what says it to everyone else, and unlike the description
beside it a name cannot be silenced by a verbosity setting.
**The live region was mounted with its first sentence.** NVDA, JAWS and
VoiceOver routinely drop an announcement for a region that did not exist before
the mutation — which would have silenced the one case that replaced `aria-busy`,
since `online → pending` is exactly where the region appeared. It is always in
the DOM now and only its text changes.
**The description id was a literal** on a component that takes all its state
through props and renders per viewer. Two toolbars on screen would resolve both
buttons' `aria-describedby` to the first span, describing one device's control
with another device's network state. `useId` per instance. The unit tests render
one toolbar at a time and could not have seen it — the test added with the fix
renders two.
The live region said "Changing the network state." and then cleared to empty on success. An empty update is announced by nothing, so a screen-reader user heard the request begin and never heard it finish — and the failure path *was* announced, which made silence the specific reward for it working. The button's name could not carry it either: a name change on an already-focused button is not reliably re-announced by VoiceOver or JAWS. Every position has a sentence now, settled ones included, so the region updates rather than empties. The visible tooltip still shows the sentence only for the two positions the button cannot draw — the others say enough in the name, and four extra words on the common case is noise. Also names the record button's two disabled states. It announced "Start recording, unavailable" while uploading: the wrong action, and no reason — and a disabled button suppresses pointer events, so Radix never opens the tooltip that would have given one. That is the #447 gap again, on the button next door.
…cording The name got four branches and the tooltip kept two, so `done` read out "Recording saved" while the screen said "Processing…" — stale for a sighted user, and a Label-in-Name mismatch the moment that trigger becomes hoverable. The other half of the same finding stays in #624: the naming reaches someone using a virtual cursor and nobody else, because activating the button disables the element they are standing on and focus drops to `<body>`. That is a behaviour change to a control this feature does not otherwise touch.
…t read Two majors from the pre-PR review, and the first inverts a premise this branch was built on. **`available: false` means "cannot change it", not "cannot read it".** The protocol says so plainly — `NetworkNotSteerable` is *"whatever the device's network is doing, tapflow can no longer change it"* — and carries `offline` on that member precisely so the viewer can still draw the position. Folding it into a position-less state threw that away, and the consequence was worse than a mislabel: from a position-less rendering `toggle` asked for `offline` every time, so a device taken offline on a write the agent could not confirm could not be brought back by any number of clicks. Only a reboot cleared it. Position and steerability are separate axes now, as they are on the wire. The button draws where the device is whatever `available` says, and the sentence says whether tapflow can still move it. The test that should have caught this was the one that pinned the fold, so the mutation died against an assertion encoding the same mistake. It now asserts the opposite, and a second test aims directly at the ratchet. **`pending` had no deadline**, so one unanswered request disabled the control for the life of the session. `send` drops a frame outright when the socket is not open — no queue, no throw — and an agent that receives one and then dies is answered by nobody, because the relay only produces `network:error` for what *it* could not dispatch. The result was a spinner that never stopped and a button whose every click the guard swallowed. `useClipboardBridge`, which this hook already cites as its model, arms exactly this kind of budget per request. Also: the report deadline overwrote unconditionally, so a report landing in the milliseconds before React's effect flush was applied and then discarded — the window where the slow-but-legitimate report lands. It is a functional update now. **And the wiring had no test at all.** The hook and the toolbar each had a suite; the chain between them did not, and three separate one-line deletions removed the feature with typecheck, all 387 tests and the `inboundDisposition` static check still green — an optional `network` prop, a bare `'network-control'` string, and the routing call beside a comparison the static check reads instead. That check calls itself a floor rather than a fence, and this is what the fence looks like. `DeviceViewer.openUrl.test.tsx` exists for the same shape one layer down.
Two consequences of the previous commit, both caught by the a11y gate. Separating position from steerability left the name saying "Bring device online" for a device tapflow had just reported it can no longer steer. The correction sat in the `aria-describedby` sentence — the channel this file's own comment calls unreliable, because a verbosity setting can drop it — so at default verbosity the promise arrived with no caveat. The name carries it now: "Retry: bring device online", which is honest in both directions, since the last attempt did not land and clicking will try again. That retry is not futile while #618 leaves a transient failure indistinguishable from a permanent one. `aria-busy` went missing in the same restructure. `toggle` refuses a click for as long as a request is in flight — up to eight seconds now that there is a request deadline — and the only signs were a swapped icon and a one-shot live sentence, neither of which is a property AT can query on the control. Visually the un-steerable state is still carried by opacity alone, with the sentence in the tooltip. On touch that tooltip never opens, which is the #447 gap rather than something this control can close on its own.
…g AT can read Two inconsistencies the previous commit introduced. `Retry:` was applied for every position when `steerable` was false, but the sentence explaining why is only appended on the settled ones — so a position-less state would have said "Retry: toggle device network" with no channel saying what had been attempted. That is the claim-from-silence the rest of this file is built to avoid, arriving through the fix for the last one. The combination is unreachable through `useNetworkControl`, where any report settles the position, but this component takes the two as independent props. And `aria-busy` is a hint that content is updating — NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver do not read it as unavailability on a button — so while `toggle` refused every click the control still presented itself as fully actionable. `aria-disabled` alongside it, not `disabled`: that would suppress the tooltip trigger and drop focus, which is #624's shape, and the reason a disabled control owes is already in the live region beside it.
`aria-disabled` said the control was unavailable while the guard that makes that true lived in `useNetworkControl.toggle` — a state in ARIA and not in behaviour, which is the mirror of a state in CSS and not in ARIA. Voice-control implementations that skip `aria-disabled` targets were told one thing, and any consumer wiring a handler without its own guard would have fired the action. Same argument as the retry scoping one commit ago: this component takes its state as props and has to hold on its own terms, whichever viewer supplies the handler.
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participant SimulatorToolbar
participant useNetworkControl
participant Relay
participant DeviceViewer
SimulatorToolbar->>useNetworkControl: Toggle network state
useNetworkControl->>Relay: Send network:set with request ID
Relay->>DeviceViewer: Return network:state or network:error
DeviceViewer->>useNetworkControl: Route network message
useNetworkControl-->>SimulatorToolbar: Update confirmed state or error
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288-293: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the exact name here.
The test name states that the control keeps its name during a request. The assertion only checks that
networkButton()is not null. The query matches on the accessible name, so it does prove a name survives, but it does not prove which one. Asserting'Bring device online'pins the intent and would catch a spinner branch that also swapped the label.💚 Suggested assertion
toolbar(control({ position: 'offline', pending: true })) - expect(networkButton()).toBeTruthy() + expect(networkButton()!.getAttribute('aria-label')).toBe('Bring device online')🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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227-288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider extracting the network control into its own component.
The block is a 60-line IIFE inside JSX, and it holds the only consumer of
descId. ANetworkToolbarButton({ network })component would ownnetworkLook,networkAction, and its ownuseId, which also removes the need forSimulatorToolbarto mint an id it does not otherwise use. The behavior and the ARIA attributes stay the same, so the existing tests still apply.This is optional. The current code is correct.
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In @.changeset/khaki-otters-listen.md:
- Line 11: Replace the unsteerable-state sentence in
.changeset/khaki-otters-listen.md at line 11 and CHANGELOG.md at line 13 with
identical wording that clearly states the device still reports its current
network state.
Apply the same fix in `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 13: Apply the same clarified wording
in the changelog.
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In `@packages/dashboard/components/device/shared/SimulatorToolbar.tsx`:
- Around line 227-288: Optionally extract the inline network-control IIFE into a
dedicated NetworkToolbarButton component that accepts network as its prop. Move
networkLook, networkAction, and descId/useId ownership into that component,
remove the unused parent-level ID handling, and preserve the existing rendering,
interaction behavior, and ARIA attributes.
In `@packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/SimulatorToolbar.network.test.tsx`:
- Around line 288-293: Update the test “keeps its name while a request is in
flight” to assert that networkButton() resolves the exact accessible name “Bring
device online,” rather than only checking that the control exists. Preserve the
pending request setup and use the existing accessible-name query.
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'Steer' is the codebase's word for this and neither release note introduces it. The protocol's own is 'change' — plainer, and already the vocabulary a reader of these notes has.
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Summary
Closes #607 for Android. The wire has been complete for three slices and nobody could use it — three releases in a row said "the control is not on screen yet". It is now: a toolbar button that puts an emulator into airplane mode and takes it back out, gated on the agent announcing
network-control, so iOS picks it up in the last slice with no change here.The button has four positions, and none of them claims something the device did not say. A device nobody has heard from, one whose report never came, and both settled positions are drawn differently — because "on the network" is not a safe thing to say about silence, which is the failure this whole feature exists to catch. A device tapflow can no longer steer still shows where it is: that is a separate axis, and the wire makes it separate. Nothing renders optimistically; the toggle moves when the device answers and at no other time.
Review found two majors, both of which this branch would otherwise have shipped:
available: falsehad been read as "could not read it" when the protocol says "cannot change it" and carriesofflineon that member so the viewer can still draw the position. The consequence was a one-way ratchet — from a position-less rendering every click asked for offline again, so a device taken offline on an unconfirmed write could not be brought back by any number of clicks. The test that should have caught it was pinning the fold, so the mutation died against an assertion encoding the same mistake.inboundDispositionstatic check still green. That check reads whether a<msg>.typecomparison exists in a file and calls itself a floor rather than a fence;DeviceViewer.network.test.tsxis the fence.The a11y gate ran on every commit and caught the most. Four times it found the same defect — asserting a state from silence — after it had moved to a channel the previous fix did not cover:
aria-pressed, then the accessible name, then a live region that emptied on success, then a name promising an action tapflow had just said it could not do. Visually the uncertainty was always drawn; it was the AT channel that kept making the claim. It also found that every icon button in this toolbar had no accessible name at all — lucide marks an icon with no a11y proparia-hidden, in the version before the recent bump as well as after, and a tooltip'saria-describedbyattaches only while it is open.Checklist
anyagent-corefirst — n/a, no interface changedRelated
.work/docs2026-08-21-network-toggle-plan.md(plan),NETWORK-CONTROL-PLAN.md(program status),reviews/feature__network-toggle.md(review, HEADed82290157553a696712d2201e63b22200d15b11).Split out rather than fixed here: #624 (two toolbar buttons drop keyboard focus by disabling themselves — the gate's last remaining warning), #625 (the position survives a reboot on the same session).
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